Most directional cluster sets have common values

Most common 'sporadic' cancers have a significant germline genetic component.

Common cancers have been demarcated into 'hereditary' or 'sporadic' ('non-hereditary') types historically. Such distinctions initially arose from work identifying rare, highly penetrant germline mutations causing 'hereditary' cancer. While rare mutations are important in particular families, most cases in the general population are 'sporadic'. Twin studies have suggested that many 'sporadic' ca...

Auctions versus Posted Prices When Buyers Have Common Values

Our objective is to determine if a first-price auction or a posted-price market provides a seller with the larger expected revenue when buyers have a common value for the item being sold. An agent-based, posted-price market and an agent-based, first-price common-value auction with a reserve price are developed to compare these selling methods. When the seller cannot impose a reserve price in th...

Neurosyphilis: the most common things are most common.

Reports published in the past twenty years include many purporting to show, without much reason, that classic presentations of neurosyphilis are the exception rather than the rule. We join the few who take another view, and discuss here the reasons underlying the conflict of opinions.

A Note on Directional Wavelet Transform: Distributional Boundary Values and Analytic Wavefront Sets

By using a particular class of directional wavelets namely, the conical wavelets, which are wavelets strictly supported in a proper convex cone in the k-space of frequencies , in this paper, it is shown that a tempered distribution is obtained as a finite sum of boundary values of analytic functions arising from the complexification of the translational parameter of thewavelet transform. Moreov...

Directional Entropy of Rotation Sets